- 12 results for juba
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Wednesday 19 May
Southern Sudan wonders how to brand itself
How do you name a nation? The southern part of Sudan is set to become the world’s newest country when people there vote on independence in a referendum scheduled for January.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Diplomacy Briefing
The husband-and-wife double act at the Swiss embassy in Bangkok, plus the latest from the Sudan and US.
Edits / Government
Southern Sudan – Newborn nation
Southern Sudan's long march to freedom is almost over. Six years after a peace deal ended one of Africa's bloodiest civil wars a referendum is taking place that is almost certain to lead to the break-up of Sudan. But what…
Affairs / Politics
Africa/Middle East briefing
Bodyguards on room service in Mogadishu, a peek at Saudi lingerie laws and the next failed state.
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Thursday 27 January
Young Ugandans weary of world’s pothole capital
Kampala’s moneyed youth mill round a photography exhibition, quaffing wine and debating the works on show. But this is no ordinary exhibition and these are no ordinary conversations. The exhibition displays photographs of…
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Sunday 8 July
The blot on the West
At some stage in the future there will be major political scandal about the West’s long-term funding and arming of a dictatorial regime that embezzles aid and oil money and kills its own people.
Affairs / Politics
Africa/Middle East Briefing
A look at the wardrobe of South Sudan's president, plus election watch in Mali and solving Lebanon's power-shortage problems.
Affairs / Society
Respect the elders
The Avengers be damned. The combined diplomatic super powers of 10 global leaders known as The Elders, formed by Nelson Mandela and led by chairman Desmond Tutu, are taking on the world’s most complex problems.
Affairs / Politics
Forecast 2010: Politics
Where will things kick off in 2010? Will anyone manage to make a new country in the new year? Or oust a tyrant? Or even manage to join the EU?
Edits / Retail
Christmas gift guide
From chocolates to wooden toys, cameras to candleholders, we’ve scoured the globe for things we’d like to find in the Monocle Christmas stocking.
Affairs / Economics
Horn of plenty
It is a tiny Muslim nation in one of the world’s most politically hostile regions. But Djibouti is also in the perfect position to keep tabs on Islamist militants. That’s why the US army is here and, thanks to a hearts- and…